brainsick
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of brainsick
before 1000; Middle English brain-seke, Old English brægensēoc. See brain, sick 1
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And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
What, did the brainsick boy upbraid me so?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
Pardon them for their native ignorance, And brainsick passion; For, after all, true men of sense will say,— Their works can never parallel thy play.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Chapel and Barn-howrie would be upon my Top, and pursue me before the Commissary, and every Body will look upon me, as brainsick or mad.
From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous
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